And the father, he Tipp also?
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I put down an August bank holiday afternoon 20 years ago supping pints in Carney. Was supposed to be en route home from Galway. Might have ended up in Birr by the end of the night 
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Johnny Cash did an incredibly version of this during his American Recordings, absolute searing beauty
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Maurice, a Dub. Lives in Nenagh, 94. Sister Siobhain lives in Dromineer
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Think O’Riordan more or less there at start?
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I remember the show. My first time seeing MacGowan as a 9 or 10 year old, a helluva sight. He was magical, so fucking cool, they looked like they were having some Craic, and by god they were.
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Watching television like this as a seven year old child was boring, but at the same time exciting. You wouldn’t really know what was going on but you understood that serious adults were doing their thing, that they had done something formidable, and that you as a child would grow up and one day come to understand and inherit this cultural legacy.
You knew it was a cultural legacy because your uncle would come back from England every Christmas and get out his mandolin and pluck away at it, and he’d devour anything related to traditional Irish music on television, and he’d watch Woody Guthrie documentaries, and highlights of the Cambridge folk festival, and bring you to play snooker on the big table, and then go to a pub down the town, the Crane or Taaffes or the Quays, when it was actually a proper pub, to watch traditional Irish music, and he’d buy you a Coca-Cola and he’d have a pint and a few rollie cigarettes, and you knew that this was the stuff the adults were into, and that one day you’d be into it too.
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Yes, my bad
Four of the recording personnel for “Fairytale…” no longer with us now
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Same here.Just magical and the way he let rip when it came to his turn after Ronnie.
Cool as fuck and probably a barrel of porter inside him as well lol
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The way John Sheahan is looking at Spider in that just pure class. A veteran musician in absolute awe and thoroughly enjoying playing with a relative newbie.
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That stood out to me too, absolutely hopping off each other. Drew looking across off the mic at MacGowan, half in fear half in divilment. A genuine supergroup of fucking mayhem.
And the paper cup of vodka.
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Different but similar i remember an interview with one of Willie Nelsons band and he was saying you be halfway through playing a verse and thinking there’s no way he’s catching up and keeping time to this but he still pulled it out (almost) every time.
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FFS sake.
Shane, Kirrsty, Chevron?
I was trying to figure this myself
The Wires David Simon pays tribute🧵
https://twitter.com/aodespair/status/1730222176924491854?s=46&t=YOfhVM10W0bcyIiYSLI3Wg
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He was a phenomenal song writer. He wrote the Moving on Song that Christy Moore covers. He wrote the Roberta Flak covered song - The first time ever i saw your face. School Days Over - covered (among others) by Luke Kelly
Pretty sure he wrote Black Velvet Band and The Foggy Dew ( the other one) as well.